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If respect was given out where it was due across the whole board, then fair enough but the attention is still on the joker performance.
I mean look at batman begins and the dark knight. batman begins started falling apart in its third act but the dark knight was strong and consistent all the way through with a better known villain. Does it warrant this much cash on its own merit? It's impossible to tell. Personally I doubt it.
But I think you're still confusing Ledger's death with Ledger's performance. The majority of people are seeing this movie because of word of mouth on how great he is as the Joker, not because it's his last full role. And that being the case, you have to say fair enough.
I'd also point out the hype for this movie was already very big before January. The full trailer debuted with I Am Legend in December and it was all the internet and just about everyone who saw it could talk about that month. And the vast majority of posters apprehensive of Nolan's Joker were suddenly far more excited on this board.
The hype was definitely there before Ledger's death, it wasn't suddenly created in the 6 months before TDK's release. Of course, headlines talking about ledger's passing also gave a tone of free press to TDK, but that would only account for a big opening weekend - not the tremendous legs it's displaying.
As for not warranting the amount of money it's making, well.. that's 100% subjective. My opinion is that TDK is by some distance the best comic book movie ever made so of course I'm going to think it deserves to be the biggest earner of the genre.